Screen.



PATBNTBD JAN. 23, 1906.

S C RE E N APPLICATION FILED JUNE 16, 1905.

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ATTORNE JOHN BOCOCK MOSELEY, OF DANVILLE, VIRGINIA.

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vSpecification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1906.

Application filed Juno 16, 1905. Serial No. 265,521.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Bocock MOSE- LEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Danville, in the County of Pittsylvania and State of Virginia7 have invented a new and Improved Screen, of which the following is a full, clear, and eXact description.

This invention relates to screens; and the object of the invention is to produce a screen adapted to be used as a covering for a portion of a table upon which food is set.

A special object of the invention is to provide a screen of this kind which is simple in construction and which may be readily attached to or detached from a table and which will at the same time be easily manipulated to enable articles to be removed from or placed under the screen.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of parts to be more fully described hereinafter and definitely set forth in the claims.

Reference is to be nad to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which like reference characters designate like parts in both views.

Figure 1 is a perspective showing Aa table i with my invention applied thereto, and Fig.

2 is a transverse section through the screen and the upper portion of the table. This section is taken upon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the parts, l represents a table, such as a kitchen-table, of any common construction and having a top 2, With the usual projecting edges 3.

The screen 4 comprises a rectangular body presenting vertical walls 5 and a top wall 6, the same being open upon its under side. This body is preferably constructed of a light framework 7, presenting horizontal and vertical bars, to which sheets 8 of wire mesh attach, the said wire mesh constituting the bodies of the walls of the screen, as will be readily understood. To one of the vertical Walls of the screen I attach hinges 9, the horizontal leaves 10 of which rest upon the surface of the table, and to the under sides of these leaves brackets 11 are rigidly attached. These brackets have substantially the form of a Z-bar, presenting inwardly-projecting extensions 12. In this way throats 13 are formed adapted to receive the edge of the table, as indicated in Fig. 2. I provide clamping-screws 14, which pass through the eX- tensions 12 and clamp against the under side of the table edge 3, as will be readily understood. In this way the screen, resting upon the table, as shown, would be rigidly se# cured thereto. v The hinges 9 enable the screen to be readily raised from the table for the purpose of removing articles of food from beneath the same. The horizontal leaves 10 of the hinges constitute supports for the screen and enable the same to maintain itself in a substantially vertical position.

With the arrangement described the screen may evidently be attached at different points along the length of the table, increasing the convenience of the device and its adaptability to particular circumstances.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A screen adapted to be set upon a table and having hinges with leaves adapted to lie upon the surface of said table, and clamps formed on said leaves and adapted to attach to the edge of the table.

2. A screen adapted to rest upon the top of a table and having hinges attached thereto, said hinges having leaves adapted to lie upon the table-top, brackets attached to said leaves forming throats adapted to receive the edge of the table-top, and clamp-screws carried by said brackets and adapted to clamp the edge of the table-top.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN BOCOCK MOSELEY.

Witnesses:

C. M. FLINN, W. B. JORDON. 

